Ping.fm provides users with an easy way to maintain all of their social networking accounts, no matter how many they have. With more accessibility on the internet, many users juggle multiple profiles across a number of different websites. Ping.fm was created to help save the time that would otherwise be required to jump from one site to another, login and update. Instead, users can log into Ping.FM and follow up on all of their profiles. Updates can be sent and other tasks completed without ever leaving the Ping.fm site. The creators of Ping.fm wanted to offer a way to update multiple social networking profiles at the same time. The initial concept was born through personal experience. The creators themselves saw how difficult it was to manage a blog, Twitter, Tumblr, and other social networking websites. Rather than waste time with logging in and navigating from one site to another, they decided the internet needed a more efficient way to handle these daily tasks. Ping.fm entered closed beta for six months until September 2nd, 2008 when it was opened up to everyone. Ping.fm is unique because rather than becoming another social networking site, it instead pulls all of them together in a way that benefits the user. Ping.fm saves time and typing by allowing users to update many profiles at a time, from a single location. The list of compatible sites is long, spanning all the major communities, such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, WordPress, Tumblr, Jaiku, Blogger, Bebo, AIM Status, Delicious, Plaxo Pulse, FriendFeed, Plurk, Flickr, Vox, TypePad, Photobucket, Yahoo, Tagged, My Yearbook, StreetMavens, Yammr, and Brightkite to name a few. The Ping.fm website offers a gently colorful appearance with a lot of open space that works well for the layout. Users can easily locate the tools they need on Ping.fm. The site design helps further the simplicity and time saving benefits offered by this handy internet tool. Icons and logos are also used to allow visitors to easily locate their desired social networking websites and verify compatibility with Ping.fm. By clicking on the “sign up” box found at the top of the screen, users can create their own Ping.fm account. The process is very fast and easy, asking for an email address and password. After entering this little bit of information, the new user is taken to the list of potential social networking sites where they can begin adding each network to their account. Registering for Ping.Fm could not be simpler, making it even more appealing for those interested in saving time. 99% of the most popular social networking websites are offered for free. Ping.fm follows suit by offering its service at no charge to the user. Anyone can stop by the site, create an account in seconds and begin adding their favorite social networking websites. There is no limit to how many can be added and no premium account option exists. All accounts are given access to every Ping.fm feature currently available. At this point, no announcement has been made about the introduction of a premium account or features. Anyone of any age or background who feels starved of free time when managing their social networking accounts can fall in love with Ping.fm. Creating an account is as easy as it can get, and the service costs nothing. Users can save a tremendous amount of time each day when they only have to log into a single account instead of three, five or more. Ping.fm makes it easy to update social networking accounts without having to neglect one or two in the process.

• A long list of social networking websites compatible with Ping.fm
• Quick updates on multiple social networking sites using a single account
• Ping.fm iPhone and Blackberry applications to make the service mobile
• The ability to create posting groups
• User media page access

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